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Re:Who and what is Coinhive? by oelmekki on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:54AM (#16679784)
Agreed, I initially felt good about coinhive too. I just wanted it to allow to rate limit cpu consumption, it would have been a great alternative to advertisement.

Maybe someone will come later with a idea to make this while preventing abuses (maybe browsers could built it in as a mean of payment?).

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Re:Who and what is Coinhive? by Ajedi32 on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:26PM (#16680065)
> I just wanted it to allow to rate limit cpu consumption

Can't it already do that? The demo miner on their website has controls for "CPU Usage Percentage" and "Number of cores used".

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Re:Who and what is Coinhive? by oelmekki on Monday March 26, 2018 @01:16PM (#16680583)
Nice, thanks for letting me know - I haven't check it for ages. There is definitely a proper use possible of this, then :)
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